piezo-phototronics

By leveraging a new type of LED technology, called piezo-phototronics, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a high-resolution nanowire array that has a truly astonishing number of potential uses, ranging from fingerprint readers to touch-sensitive robot skin to e-paper that allows you to sign your own personalized signature. In the future, this might be the perfect technology to implement a fingerprint reader in Apple’s iPhone 8.

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